New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-01
by gang Of desperadoes who mstook them for officers
Peters and Johnson mortaY wounded az tno nrss
fire Their companions escaped.
FATAL EFFECTS OF THE HEAT
LIGHTNING STROKES IN NEw-JERsEY.
MANY CASES OF DEATH FROM PRosTRATIoN IN THE
CITY-NO RELIEF IN VIEW.

MANY CASES OF DEATH FROM PRosTRATIoN IN THE
CITY-NO RELIEF IN VIEW.
At 4 D. m. yesterday Lightning struck the telephone
wires leading into j. e. @. II. ellis bat mills in
Lumberst., Orange, N J. 1t hurled the instruments
In fragments on the floor, smashed every pane of
glass in the office and generally wrecked everything
in 1t. 1t also sbivered the flagstaff to sDnters The
telephones all over the city were greatly damaged
At the police station ball of re shot ont OF the tee
phono and partly stunned Sergeant C0nroy besides
greatly alarming the officers in the station.
At Peekskil during the heavy thunder storm yester-
day afternoon, the Peeksill Stove Works, formerly
of the firm of Montross Leaf, were struck by light
ming Some who were standing under the shed
of tho steamboat pier were prettv we'll shaken up.
After coming to their they sent out an alarm VI
fire and the Fire Department at the scene.
The burning parts put out before any damage
of account was done.
New-York suffered terribly from heat and humidity
yesterday. There were many cases OF prostration,
a large number of them fatal, and citizens who could
not get away to the seaside experienced one Of the
most uncomfortable parboiings that they have been
subjected to In an unusually uncomfortable season.
According to the Signal Service observations tho
temperature at z q III. ITO, ana the humidity
was { 3 per cent At 3 D. m. the heat was Sos and
the humidity 73 per cent AZ 10 p M the thermom-
indicated $780, and humidity assertive having
rs per its credit. The sefegister1ng instru-
ment of the Signal Service Bureau noted maximum
temperature Of 800, and the minimum was 7o". In
the course Of the afternoon shower of rain somewhat
allevatsd matters. The amount Of the fall was VA
inch This condensation of the moisture in the at
mosphere had not however, the effect Of reducing tho
humidity which indeed. increased later Oh. On
other warm days a refreshing breeze has tempered
the heat, but yesterday no perceptible wind was
recorded. The only places where life seemed worth
lvir. the summer resorts. and they received
large number Of fugitves from the sun-beaten and
humidity. ridden city. ~
The following persons died from the effects of tie
heat in this city Philip Colwell. age twentysix of
No. 55S Tenth-ave.; Thomas Martin age thirty
seven, No. 43 Maron-st; Joseph Becker age twenty
forty found dead his No. Jamesslip; Philip
Hesse age forty-ive, No. 141 Ludlow-st; Albert
Leavit age forty-fVe, No. 1873 Eighth-st; Mary
ONeil. age forty-hye No. 2lv West Twenty eignth,
ST. Edward Monahan, age thirty-four. NO. a', do9
Monroest Thoma. Kerrigau, age thirty nvc. No. s62
Third-ave.; George w. Cowcl, age forty-one, NO.
3l7 West twenty eighth-st :. ,
In Brooklyn the fatal cases we're these: David =:
Ackerson age sixty-twO, No. $50 Myr.le-ave., ana
George Brother, No. 225 Honmau-st.
Police Sergeant Shields OF the Fifteenth II ecnct,
Bi ooklyn, was Frustrated by the heat Whine at MS
dask in the police station.
Of sunstroke have been treated lateiy
at the Chambers Street Hospital by the old meod oi
bleeding Tho house surgeon said yesterday ina.
he believed that In certain cases the process would
Yesterday morning died. but no would certainly have
died n he had not been bled, and two on whom this
treatment had been used had recovered. one of
Slcm was not q serious case, and the patent was
bed only once, but the other was blcd three times
and the doctor felt sure that he would otherwise
have died. lie would only bleed he said In pie,
thoric case where the pulse was null ana strong ana
suosl treatment especially valuable In cas0 OF
greatest point was to get hold of the case early and
reduce the temperature and then, under proper con-
dtions great benefit might be gained by bleeding the
patient.